UMass Amherst Receives $2.5 Million from Howard Hughes Medical Institute to Reshape STEM Education
This grant will allow UMass to provide key STEM-related experiences to students to counter racial disparities.
ESA’s Euclid Mission, With Help from UMass, Releases First Images of the Cosmos
The agency relied on UMass researchers to study dust attenuation corrections that aided the measurements needed for the telescope to do its historic work.
UMass Amherst Sunwheel and Sky-Watching Events to mark the Autumnal Equinox on September 23
UMass Amherst astronomer Stephen Schneider among the standing stones of the campus Sunwheel to observe sunrise and sunset on Saturday, Sept. 23
Nine UMass Amherst Faculty Members Receive NSF Career Awards in 2022-23 Academic year
Nine faculty members across the UMass Amherst campus have been named the recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards.
Spring 2023 Rising Researchers Announced
Six CNS undergraduates have been recognized for their outstanding research, scholarship, and creative activity
How to Break the Universe and Other Adventures in the Department of Astronomy
A team of astronomers, including assistant professor Kate Whitaker, recently published research that many popular publications have said “breaks the universe.”
With UMass Amherst's Help, the James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Details in Pandora's Cluster
UMass astronomers lend expertise in photometry to unprecedented view of deep space
The Evolution of Galaxies: UMass Undergrad Links Black Holes to Star Formation
New research links black holes to star formation, paving the way for the James Webb Space Telescope
Widest Photo of the Universe Ever
UMass Astronomers use Hubble Space Telescope to piece together larger view
Milky Way's Black Hole Revealed
UMass researchers are part of an international team called Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
STEM Fellowships Awarded
CNS Students Awarded National Science Foundation Fellowships